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The Kyiv Independent’s Dominic Culverwell reports from an undisclosed thermal power plant operated by DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy company, to show how energy workers are keeping critical infrastructure running as temperatures drop and attacks continue.
Inside a Ukrainian power plant Russia keeps hitting
YouTube video by Kyiv Independent
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December 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Researchers using the JWST have confirmed the first supersonic Runaway Supermassive Black Hole (~7.8 bly away) ejected by and racing away from its host galaxy at 3.43 million km/h, leaving behind a 200,000-light-year-long "contrail" of newborn stars.

More at fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1157...
#Astronomy
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Attached: 1 image Researchers, using the JWST, have confirmed that a black hole, first detected in 2023 by the same team, is indeed a supersonic Runaway Supermassive Black Hole, ejected by and racing...
fosstodon.org
December 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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3I/ATLAS Flyby apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25122...
This deep exposure captures the comet from another star system as it gently swept across a faint background of stars in the constellation Leo
December 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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⚡️Russian attacks on the cities of Uman and Kharkiv killed at least two, injured 14, local authorities reported on Dec. 26.
Russian attacks on Uman and Kharkiv's 'busiest road' kill at least 2, injure 14
Kharkiv Oblast was struck with with three KAB guided bombs, one of which targeted the city of Kharkiv, Governor Oleh Syniehubov reported.
kyivindependent.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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I remember when they said electricity from nuclear facilities would be “too cheap to meter.”
Anybody buying that BS now?
thebulletin.org/premium/2025...
Whence nuclear power in the 21st century?
Whether a nuclear renaissance actually occurs in the coming decade or two depends on three fundamental questions: Are the new designs safer than their predecessors? Do the new designs lead to changes ...
thebulletin.org
December 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Enjoying this report by David Hart who argues that the smarter strategy for the US is to compete with China in the EV space. Electric vehicles are a superior technology & will eventually displace ICE vehicles. Abandoning the contest will leave the US behind. www.cfr.org/report/compe...
Compete, Don’t Retreat
The primary U.S. response to China’s first-mover advantages in emerging auto technologies has been protection. A smarter strategy would seek to compete by supporting producers and collaborating with …
www.cfr.org
December 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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The team led by researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory challenged the decade-long assumption of a buried global ocean at Titan after taking a fresh look at observations made years ago by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft around Saturn.
https://to.pbs.org/4qd6hI5
Saturn's moon Titan may not have a buried ocean as suspected, study suggests
New research suggests Titan instead may hold deep layers of ice and slush more akin to Earth's polar seas instead of a buried ocean as long suspected.
www.pbs.org
December 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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#OTD: 25 December 2021, a perfect launch on #ChristmasDay for the NASA/ESA/CSA James #Webb Space Telescope on #Ariane5 flight VA256 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana 🧪🔭
👉 esawebb.org/images/webb_...

@esa.int @science.esa.int @stsci.edu
December 26, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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America needs a mass social movement—now—to save itself from autocracy, David Brooks argued in October.

Spend time with one of The Atlantic’s most-read stories of 2025:
America Needs a Mass Movement—Now
Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.
bit.ly
December 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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A US judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from detaining British anti-disinformation campaigner Imran Ahmed, after the permanent resident sued officials over an entry ban for his role in what Washington argues is online censorship reut.rs/3YI0HBI
Judge grants injunction blocking US from detaining British anti-disinformation activist
A U.S. judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from detaining British anti-disinformation campaigner Imran Ahmed, after the U.S. permanent resident sued officials over an entry ...
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December 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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You can watch the 60 Minutes piece (with a link in my story) about the abuse & torture migrants received in the El Salvador gulag after being deported by the Trump regime without due process & lies about their criminality. This horror is what Trump apologist Bari Weiss didn’t want Americans to see.
Bullseye from 60 Minutes journalist Sharyn Alfonsi in response to Bari Weiss: “If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-r...
Snapshot: Rejecting the Regime's 'Kill Switch'
CBS News' Bari Weiss blocked a rigorous '60 Minutes' story about the brutal CECOT prison. This is not tolerable.
www.americaamerica.news
December 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Tenet Media founder Lauren Chen, who secretly took money from two people with ties to Russian state media to involve conservative influencers in an unwitting propaganda scheme, is back in the US after being deported to Canada under President Biden. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
December 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Vance has sided with the Nazis. He has declared that he has no enemies to the right
December 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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A ‘bidirectional charging’ EV trial is under way that, in years to come, could help solve the UK’s energy conundrum.
Two-way electric vehicle charging at scale could stop renewable energy being wasted – here’s how it works
A ‘bidirectional charging’ EV trial is under way that, in years to come, could help solve the UK’s energy conundrum.
tcnv.link
December 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Coal isn’t coming back. Wanting it to is nostalgia for inefficiency and failure.

Coal gets crushed by solar, wind, grids, storage, geothermal & batteries on cost, speed, and scale. Even existing nuclear is cheaper to run.

This isn’t politics or ideology. Coal lost because it’s inferior. #solar
December 24, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Parliamentary 'democracy' has always been shite, but under Starmer it's failing. We need real change.
Did 2025 mark the end of British parliamentary democracy as we know it? | Andy Beckett
The conventions and rituals that define the way we do politics rapidly eroded this year – setting the UK on a course into the unknown, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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It’s incredible to reflect, that at the UK’s 2024 General Election, Labour only got 34% of the vote (yet got a thumping Parliamentary Majority).

Even after the Tories complete disaster of governance over the prior 14 years . . .

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour is living in a fool’s paradise if it thinks it has plenty of time to turn Britain around | Larry Elliott
Going into 2026, the economy has little forward momentum and things may get worse before they get better, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Ex-Army officers urge Keir Starmer to stop arming Israel
www.thenational.scot/news/2572310...
Ex-Army officers urge Keir Starmer to stop arming Israel
Four ex-British Army officers have called on the UK Government to stop arming Israel
www.thenational.scot
December 25, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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The lack of #media coverage of the Liberal Democrats in the UK is extremely puzzling

What is going on?
🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Liberal Democrats have won more local by-elections than any other party in 2025.

In real elections up and down the country, only the Lib Dems are taking on Reform and winning.
December 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM